It is a lot like lifting weights.  You lift weights to develop muscles.  The normal human frequency is a conditional consensus that is dominant on the planet; that is where people live.  There is also an extraordinary consciousness that is developing, but it takes muscle to live there; it requires developing the ability to maintain a higher frequency in spite of what is happening around you.  So the bouncing up and down between frequencies is the process of developing neural pathways in your brain that can sustain the higher frequency.
 
When you find yourself experiencing old patterns, it is familiar and easy.  It is easy to be your past, it is easy to be who you were, because it is familiar; it seems very normal.  To exercise and build strength, on the other hand, you have to have a taste of something more.  In weightlifting, if you kept lifting the same weight you would only develop to a certain point and then stop; that is as far as you would go.  But if you keep adding weight to what you lift, you keep developing.  Essentially, that is what is happening in Life: you are developing muscle, the ability to sustain a higher frequency.  You familiarize yourself by developing neural pathways that are comfortable with a more expanded awareness, and when that becomes you, the old "you" keeps dissipating.  One day you look and see that your former self is now only a fleeting shadow.
 
It is a matter of realizing the difference.  Recognizing the differences in the levels of energy is like training that helps you to increasingly identify where things are, where things are coming from, and where things are going.  Consequently, you have a clarity, an openness, a bigger picture of things; actually you are moving from the personal to the impersonal.  The impersonal is not self-concerned, not stuck in conditional thinking.  In the impersonal, you still have your identity as "you" but it is not so focused on the personal; it is not afraid for survival.  The impersonal is not concerned with survival; the impersonal is concerned with gaining experience through openness and connection and clarity.  So you are constantly developing a sense of clarity through the experiences that you have.
 
At times you feel the old self, you feel stuck; that can be good, because you realize that is not "you" any more.  It is like going back and doing the things you did when you were very young, and realizing they are not fun any more.  The past is gradually fading.  The past gets re-energized when old neural pathways are triggered, but it has less and less substance.  Consequently, you see the evolved "you" more readily and more often.  Seeing that difference is really important. 
 
There is a tremendous investment in the familiar, what's comfortable, but you can get so stuck in the familiar that you don't make much progress.  The more you embrace the unknown, the difficult, the higher elements of energy, the more you learn how energy works, and consequently the more stable you become in the higher frequencies.
 
It is a process of moving from human beings to super human beings.  In this process you need to remove the residue you have inherited.  Some of that residue goes back to the moment of your birth.  The process involves going deeper and deeper into the past of "you" to exorcise it, to transcend it. 

 
Now, the endeavor of looking for past conditioning to root it out is premature.  On the other hand, when you are just staying present and the deep conditioning comes up, you are ready to deal with it.  I don't advocate going to psychotherapy to dig up skeletons, because Life does that in a natural way.  Life constantly offers the opportunity to see deeper and deeper into the self and recognize more and more of the past motivations that have controlled and distorted your life.  The result is that, as you attain a higher frequency, you are more able to deal with the lower.
 
You want to be able to deal with the lower, because you do not want to have these past patterns around for you to stumble over.  It really is about knowing yourself: you come to know your weaknesses, you know where you can get distracted, you know where things get distorted--you know those things about yourself, and by knowing them you are assisting a transformative process in the brain.  It is a process that is deleting old neural pathways once there is the recognition of them, and creating new neural pathways that sustain a higher frequency.  It sounds like a lot of work, but once there is the knowing of how it works the process can go swiftly.  You can simply see, "Oh, it is that," and be done with it.  You don't have to work on it or analyze it; you simply recognize things very quickly and move past them.  Once you understand that it is a process of seeing and recognizing, and not working on things, the process can move quickly. top of page

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